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BOMBARDIER INC., Toronto symbols BBD.A $1.84 and BBD.B $1.62, announced this week that Latvia-based Air Baltic has exercised its option to buy seven more of the company’s new CSeries passenger jets. The client had previously ordered 13 planes. Bombardier will begin to deliver the aircraft by the end of 2016. The company now has firm orders for 250 CSeries planes. Based on the list price for the aircraft, these orders are worth $18 billion (all amounts except share prices in U.S. dollars). To put that in context, Bombardier’s total revenue was $18.2 billion in 2015. However, the company typically offers discounts to customers that buy multiple planes. So the total value of its CSeries backlog is probably much less than the list price. OUR RECOMMENDATION: Bombardier is still a hold....
TRANSCANADA CORP. $50 (Toronto symbol TRP; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 702.3 million; Market cap: $35.1 billion; Priceto- sales ratio: 3.1; Dividend yield: 4.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.transcanada.com) operates a 67,300- kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to Eastern Canada and the U.S. This system supplies 20% of North America’s natural gas needs. In 2015, gas pipelines provided 47% of TransCanada’s revenue and 54% of its earnings. The company also owns or invests in 20 power plants in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern U.S. In all, these facilities have over 13,100 megawatts of generating capacity. This business supplied 36% of its 2015 revenue and 24% of earnings. The remaining 17% of TransCanada’s revenue and 22% of earnings came from its oil-pipeline business. The operations mainly consist of the Keystone pipeline, which pumps crude from Alberta to storage terminals in Oklahoma. The oil then travels on to refineries in Illinois. Keystone accounts for 20% of Western Canada’s crude exports to the U.S....
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD. $192 (Toronto symbol CP; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 153.0 million; Market cap: $29.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.2; Dividend yield: 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.cpr.ca) has abandoned its plan to merge with U.S.-based railway Norfolk Southern Corp. (New York symbol NSC). The combination would have created North America’s largest railway. Norfolk rejected CP’s latest offer of about $30 billion U.S. in cash and shares. In addition, U.S. transportation regulators probably would have blocked any deal no matter how CP structured the transaction. CP’s shares gained 5% on the news. That’s because big acquisitions like this usually come with substantial risk. In addition, investors feel that CP will now use some of the cash it had for the takeover to buy back shares....
EMERA INC. $47 (Toronto symbol EMA; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 148.2 million; Market cap: $7.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.emera.com) owns 100% of Nova Scotia Power, that province’s main electricity supplier. It also owns or invests in power plants and natural gas pipelines in the U.S. and the Caribbean. Emera recently agreed to purchase TECO Energy (New York symbol TE). It supplies electricity and natural gas to 1.05 million customers in Tampa Bay, Florida. A separate subsidiary distributes gas to 510,000 clients in New Mexico. The company will pay $10.4 billion U.S., including TECO’s debt. Emera will probably sell new shares to help pay off the short-term loans it needs to finance the deal....